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in thread How to import names from a dynamically required module

Thank you very much, tobyink, I was not aware of the fact that one could call import on package names as in your example. This solved my issue.
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Re^3: How to import names from a dynamically required module
by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 03, 2012 at 06:35 UTC

    This is not specific to import; it works with all class method calls...

    use Math::BigInt;
my $class = "Math::BigInt";

my $six  = $class->new(6);
my $seven = "Math::BigInt"->new(7);
my $eight = join("::", "Math", "BigInt")->new(8);

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    In fact, string quoting class names is arguably a much better idea than the more conventional Math::BigInt->new(9), because the latter will start behaving surprisingly if there's ever a BigInt sub defined in the Math package.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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      string quoting class names is arguably a much better idea
      Or, you can use Math::BigInt::->new(8).
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        Indeed. This has the (often welcome) side-effect that the existence of the package is checked at compile-time, and a warning is issued (if warnings are enabled) if the package does not exist.

        With stringy class names (and indeed with the traditional Foo::Bar->new) there is no such check, and Perl just blows up when it can't resolve the method call.

        perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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        Or you can use Math::BigInt->new, because the odds of there being a BigInt sub in the Math package are astronomical :)

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